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Short answer: their contract and content management is stuck in a time long ago and far away.
On books :-
Amazon has the most. Note that sometimes you search and come up with a book and it says not available - there may be a pommie version for example that is. Sometimes this will be listed as 'kindle version' in the list of formats, even though you are _already_ looking at a kindle version. So you can click on that to see. Another way to check is to search the 'All departments' option. If you just search the Kindle store it can be dodgy, as they limit the searches by geography - even if that is not always right.
You can look at kobobooks.com or readwithoutpaper.com or borders.com.au - but there will be a much smaller selection and higher prices, generally. And the search engines for some of them are truly wretched.
Some at Fictionwise.com, as well. Worth a look for some older work.
Basically, the media companies have never been interested in providing a large range of product to Australia in timely fashion - and probably never will until made to do so out of necessity.
e.g. the complete balls-up they made of Pay TV as a prime example.
Historically the Northern Hemisphere bunch have been able to get away with charging us a significantly higher price even taking into account transport etc. and pocketing the difference.
However, bad luck for them is digital knows no geography. Hence we became world-leading per capita downloaders of tv, music etc especially given our relatively poor bandwidth and prices of such. The publishing arms of said conglomerates are looking to try and get us to match that for books, too, with their recent behaviour.
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